Leopold Okulicki

Leopold Okulicki (11 November 1898-24 December 1946) was commander of the Home Army of Poland from 1945 to 1946, succeeding Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski. He was executed by the NKVD after the war in the Trial of the Sixteen.

Biography
Leopold Okulicki was born in November 1898 in Bratucice, Bochnia County, Austria-Hungary. Okulicki volunteered for the Polish Legion during World War I, and he joined the Polish Army during the Polish-Soviet War after the end of the world war. Okulicki was arrested and tortured by the Soviet Union's NKVD in January 1941 after the Invasion of Poland, but he became Chief-of-Staff of the recreated Polish Army after being released from prison in the USSR. After the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski's arrest, Okulicki became the leader of the Home Army, and after the end of World War II, he was arrested and imprisoned by the Soviet Union's NKVD and was executed along with the other leaders of the Home Army remaining in Poland, which became communist.